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Pankaj Agrawal

    Pankaj Agrawal

    Although the Higgs boson has been discovered, its self couplings are poorly constrained. It leaves the nature of the Higgs boson undetermined. Motivated by different Higgs potential scenarios other than the Landau-Ginzburg type in the... more
    Although the Higgs boson has been discovered, its self couplings are poorly constrained. It leaves the nature of the Higgs boson undetermined. Motivated by different Higgs potential scenarios other than the Landau-Ginzburg type in the standard model, we systematically organize various new physics scenarios: elementary Higgs, Nambu-Goldstone Higgs, Coleman-Weinberg Higgs, and tadpole-induced Higgs, etc. We find that double-Higgs production at the 27 TeV high energy LHC can be used to discriminate different Higgs potential scenarios, while it is necessary to use triple-Higgs production at the 100 TeV collider to fully determine the shape of the Higgs potential.
    Quantum entanglement plays a pivotal role in a number of communication protocols, like secret sharing and quantum cryptography. We consider a scenario where more than two parties are involved in a protocol and they share a multipartite... more
    Quantum entanglement plays a pivotal role in a number of communication protocols, like secret sharing and quantum cryptography. We consider a scenario where more than two parties are involved in a protocol and they share a multipartite entangled state. In particular, we introduce the protocol of cooperative quantum key distribution (CoQKD). In this protocol, two parties, Alice and Bob establish a key with the cooperation of other parties. Other parties control whether Alice and Bob can establish the key, its security and the key rate. We discuss the case of three parties in detail and find the necessary suitable resource states. We discuss the controlling power of the third party, Charlie. We also examine the usefulness of this new resource state for generating conference key and for cooperative teleportation. In the case of conference key, we find that recently introduced Bell inequalities can be useful to establish the security. We also generalize the scenario to more than three p...
    We investigate the usefulness of different classes of genuine quadripartite entangled states as quantum resources for teleportation and superdense coding. We examine the possibility of teleporting unknown one, two and three qubit states.... more
    We investigate the usefulness of different classes of genuine quadripartite entangled states as quantum resources for teleportation and superdense coding. We examine the possibility of teleporting unknown one, two and three qubit states. We show that one can use the teleportation protocol to send any general one and two qubit states. A restricted class of three qubit states can also be faithfully teleported. We also explore superdense coding protocol in single-receiver and multi-receiver scenarios. We show that there exist genuine quadripartite entangled states that can be used to transmit four cbits by sending two qubits. We also discuss some interesting features of multi-receiver scenario under LOCC paradigm.
    We study local-realistic inequalities, Bell-type inequalities, for bipartite pure states of finite dimensional quantum systems -- qudits. There are a number of proposed Bell-type inequalities for such systems. Our interest is in relating... more
    We study local-realistic inequalities, Bell-type inequalities, for bipartite pure states of finite dimensional quantum systems -- qudits. There are a number of proposed Bell-type inequalities for such systems. Our interest is in relating the value of Bell-type inequality function with a measure of entanglement. Interestingly, we find that one of these inequalities, the Son-Lee-Kim inequality, can be used to measure entanglement of a pure bipartite qudit state and a class of mixed two-qudit states. Unlike the majority of earlier schemes in this direction, where number of observables needed to characterize the entanglement increases with the dimension of the subsystems, this method needs only four observables. We also discuss the experimental feasibility of this scheme. It turns out that current experimental set ups can be used to measure the entanglement using our scheme.
    In the models with large extra-dimensions, we examine the production of a vector boson (γ/ Z) in association with the Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of the graviton via gluon fusion. At the leading order, the process takes place through... more
    In the models with large extra-dimensions, we examine the production of a vector boson (γ/ Z) in association with the Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of the graviton via gluon fusion. At the leading order, the process takes place through quark-loop box and triangle diagrams and it is ultraviolate finite. We report the results for the LHC. We also discuss the issues of anomaly and decoupling of heavy quarks in the amplitude. 1
    We formulate the conditional-variance uncertainty relations for general qubit systems and arbitrary observables via the inferred uncertainty relations. We find that the lower bounds of these conditional-variance uncertainty relations can... more
    We formulate the conditional-variance uncertainty relations for general qubit systems and arbitrary observables via the inferred uncertainty relations. We find that the lower bounds of these conditional-variance uncertainty relations can be written in terms of entanglement measures including concurrence, $G$ function, quantum discord quantified via local quantum uncertainty in different scenarios. We show that the entanglement measures reduce these bounds, except quantum discord which increases them. Our analysis shows that these correlations of quantumness measures play different roles in determining the lower bounds for the sum and product conditional variance uncertainty relations. We also explore the violation of local uncertainty relations in this context and in an interference experiment.
    It is known that there exist non-local correlations that respect no-signaling criterion, but violate Bell-type inequalities more than quantum-mechanical correlations. Such super quantum correlations were introduced as the Popescu-Rohrlich... more
    It is known that there exist non-local correlations that respect no-signaling criterion, but violate Bell-type inequalities more than quantum-mechanical correlations. Such super quantum correlations were introduced as the Popescu-Rohrlich (PR) box. We consider such non-local boxes with two/three inputs and two/three outputs. We show that these super quantum correlations can lead to signaling when at least one of the input bit has access to a word line along a closed time-like curve.
    We consider the process pp ! t¯. This process can give rise to many signatures of the Higgs boson. The signatures can have electrons, muons and jets. We consider the signatures that have two electrons/muons and jets. Tagging of a tau jet... more
    We consider the process pp ! t¯. This process can give rise to many signatures of the Higgs boson. The signatures can have electrons, muons and jets. We consider the signatures that have two electrons/muons and jets. Tagging of a tau jet and a bottom jet can help reduce the backgrounds significantly. We show that for the signatures to be useful, it should have at least two tau jets, or same-sign electrons/muons. These requirements reduce the backgrounds due the process with Z-bosons and the production of a pair of top quarks. In particular, we examine the usefulness of the signatures “isolated 2 electrons/muons + a bottom jet + a tau jet (eµ�b)”, ‘isolated 2 electrons/muons + 2 tau jets”, “isolated 2 electrons/muons + 2 bottom jets + a tau jet”, and “isolated 2 electrons/muons + a bottom jet + 2 tau jets”. We find that signatures with two tau jets are useful. The signatures with one tau jet are also useful, if we restrict to same-sign electrons/muons. We show that these signatures m...
    We discuss the exact remote state preparation protocol of special ensembles of qubits at multiple locations. We also present generalization of this protocol for higher dimensional Hilbert space systems for multiparties. Using the `dark... more
    We discuss the exact remote state preparation protocol of special ensembles of qubits at multiple locations. We also present generalization of this protocol for higher dimensional Hilbert space systems for multiparties. Using the `dark states', the analogue of singlet EPR pair for multiparties in higher dimension as quantum channel, we show several instances of remote state preparation protocol using multiparticle measurement and classical communication.
    Non-trivial facet inequalities play important role in detecting and quantifying the nonolocality of a state -- specially a pure state. Such inequalities are expected to be tight. Number of such inequalities depends on the Bell test... more
    Non-trivial facet inequalities play important role in detecting and quantifying the nonolocality of a state -- specially a pure state. Such inequalities are expected to be tight. Number of such inequalities depends on the Bell test scenario. With the increase in the number of parties, dimensionality of the Hilbert space, or/and the number of measurements, there are more nontrivial facet inequalities. By considering a specific measurement scenario, we find that for any multipartite qubit state, local polytope can have only one nontrivial facet. Therefore there exist a possibility that only one Bell inequality, and its permutations, would be able to detect the nonlocality of a pure state. The scenario involves two dichotomic measurement settings for two parties and one dichotomic measurement by other parties. This measurement scenario for a multipartite state may be considered as minimal scenario involving multipartite correlations that can detect nonlocality. We present detailed resu...
    Although the Higgs boson has been discovered, its self couplings are poorly constrained. It leaves the nature of the Higgs boson undetermined. Motivated by different Higgs potential scenarios other than the Landau-Ginzburg type in the... more
    Although the Higgs boson has been discovered, its self couplings are poorly constrained. It leaves the nature of the Higgs boson undetermined. Motivated by different Higgs potential scenarios other than the Landau-Ginzburg type in the standard model (SM), we systematically organize various new physics scenarios – elementary Higgs, NambuGoldstone Higgs, Coleman-Weinberg Higgs, and Tadpole-induced Higgs, etc. We find that double-Higgs production at the 27 TeV high energy LHC (HE-LHC) can be used to discriminate different Higgs potential scenarios, while it is necessary to use triple-Higgs production at the 100 TeV collider to fully determine the shape of the Higgs potential. ar X iv :1 90 7. 02 07 8v 1 [ he pph ] 3 J ul 2 01 9
    It has been suggested that there may exist quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement. The existence of such correlations can be revealed by information theoretic quantities such as quantum discord, but not by the conventional... more
    It has been suggested that there may exist quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement. The existence of such correlations can be revealed by information theoretic quantities such as quantum discord, but not by the conventional measures of entanglement. We argue that a state displays quantumness, that can be of local and nonlocal origin. Information theoretic measures not only characterize the nonlocal quantumness, but also the local quantumness, such as the “local superposition”. This can be a reason, why such measures are nonzero, when there is no entanglement. We consider a generalized version of the Werner state to demonstrate the interplay of local quantumness, nonlocal quantumness and classical mixedness of a state.
    Certain predictions of quantum theory are not compatible with the notion of local-realism. This was the content of Bell’s famous theorem of the year 1964. Bell proved this with the help of an inequality, famously known as Bell’s... more
    Certain predictions of quantum theory are not compatible with the notion of local-realism. This was the content of Bell’s famous theorem of the year 1964. Bell proved this with the help of an inequality, famously known as Bell’s inequality. The alternative proofs of Bell’s theorem without using Bell’s inequality are known as “nonlocality without inequality (NLWI)” proofs. We review one such proof namely the Hardy’s proof which due to its simplicity and generality has been considered the best version of Bell’s theorem.
    In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the... more
    In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the qubits are distributed over noisy channels. We focus on a specific noisy channel, the phase-damping channel. We propose a protocol for secret sharing of classical information with this and related noisy channels. This protocol can also be thought of as cooperative superdense coding. We also discuss other noisy channels to examine the possibility of secret sharing of classical information.
    There are presently two approaches to calculating heavy quark production for the deeply inelastic scattering process in current literature. The conventional fixed-flavor scheme focuses on the flavor creation mechanism and includes the... more
    There are presently two approaches to calculating heavy quark production for the deeply inelastic scattering process in current literature. The conventional fixed-flavor scheme focuses on the flavor creation mechanism and includes the heavy quark only as a final state particle in the hard scattering cross section; this has been computed to next-to-leading order--\\alphas^2. The more recently formulated variable-flavor scheme includes, in addition, the flavor excitation process where the initial state partons of all flavors contribute above their respective threshold, as commonly accepted for calculations of other high energy processes; this was initially carried out to leading order--\\alphas^1. We first compare and contrast these existing calculations. As expected from physical grounds, the next-to-leading-order fixed-flavor scheme calculation yields good results near threshold, while the leading-order variable-flavor scheme calculation works well for asymptotic Q^2. The quality of the calculations in the intermediate region is dependent upon the x and Q^2 values chosen. An accurate self-consistent QCD calculation over the entire range can be obtained by extending the variable-flavor scheme to next-to-leading-order. Recent work to carry out this calculation is described. Preliminary numerical results of this calculation are also presented for comparison.
    In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the... more
    In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the qubits are distributed over noisy channels. We focus on a specific noisy channel, the phase-damping channel. We propose a protocol for secret sharing of classical information with this and related noisy channels. This protocol can also be thought of as cooperative superdense coding. We also discuss other noisy channels to examine the possibility of secret sharing of classical information.
    In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the... more
    In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the qubits are distributed over noisy channels. We focus on a specific noisy channel, the phase-damping channel. We propose a protocol for secret sharing of classical information with this and related noisy channels. This protocol can also be thought of as cooperative superdense coding. We also discuss other noisy channels to examine the possibility of secret sharing of classical information.
    We discuss the processes where a KK-graviton ($G$) of the extra-dimensional models is produced in association with a color singlet boson via gluon fusion at the LHC. In particular, we consider the processes $gg \to h G$, $\gamma G$, $Z... more
    We discuss the processes where a KK-graviton ($G$) of the extra-dimensional models is produced in association with a color singlet boson via gluon fusion at the LHC. In particular, we consider the processes $gg \to h G$, $\gamma G$, $Z G$. These processes occur at one-loop through box and triangle diagrams. The cross-section for the process $gg \to \gamma G$ vanishes at the one-loop level. It can be understood by introducing the charge conjugation transformations of the KK-graviton. The processes $gg \to h G$, $Z G$ can be observed at the LHC if the KK-graviton and the Higgs boson exist with appropriate properties.
    It has been suggested that there may exist quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement. The existence of such correlations can be revealed by quantum discord, but not by the conventional measure of entanglement. We argue that a state... more
    It has been suggested that there may exist quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement. The existence of such correlations can be revealed by quantum discord, but not by the conventional measure of entanglement. We argue that a state displays quantumness that can be of local and nonlocal origin. The physical quantity such as the quantum discord probes not only the nonlocal quantumness but also the local quantumness, such as the "local superposition". This can be a reason why such measures are non-zero when there is no entanglement. We consider a generalized version of the Werner state to demonstrate the interplay of local quantumness, nonlocal quantumness, and classical mixedness of a state.
    At present, there exists an extremely successful model, the Standard Model, that can account for the phenomena in the domain of particle physics. However, there are elements in this model which are still unobserved. The validity of the... more
    At present, there exists an extremely successful model, the Standard Model, that can account for the phenomena in the domain of particle physics. However, there are elements in this model which are still unobserved. The validity of the Standard Model requires that two particles, viz., the top quark and the Higgs boson, exist in nature. The Standard Model is the
    We consider W-states and generalized W-states for $n$-qubit systems. We obtain conditions to use these states as quantum resources to teleport unknown states. Only a limited class of multi-qubit states can be teleported. For $one$-qubit... more
    We consider W-states and generalized W-states for $n$-qubit systems. We obtain conditions to use these states as quantum resources to teleport unknown states. Only a limited class of multi-qubit states can be teleported. For $one$-qubit states, we use protocols which are simple extensions of the conventional teleportation protocol. We also show that these resource states can be used to transmit

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